Royal Court Theatre, Wigan

Heritage listing

Details This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 29 April 2022 to amend the description and to reformat the text to current standards. SD 5805 SW 24-1/8/25 WIGAN KING STREET (north east side), Nos. 48 AND 50, Former Royal Court Theatre (Formerly Listed as: KING STREET (North East side) Nos. 48 AND 50 (The Royal Court Theatre)) 10/03/98 GV II Theatre, subsequently cinema, bingo hall when surveyed. 1886 and 1895, by RT Johnson; altered. Red brick in English garden wall bond with dressings of matching red terracotta and some yellow brick (roof concealed but probably slate). Large rectangular plan at right-angles to street. Eclectic style, with some Renaissance detailing. EXTERIOR: three storeys and five bays, with two storey projected foyer (added 1895): this has fluted pilasters to both floors (Ionic at first floor but partially concealed at ground floor by C20 fascia), a continuous dentilled cornice and geometrical cast-iron balustrade; at ground floor, a round-headed doorway in the centre with banded pilasters, flanked by recessed entrances with wooden panelled and plate-glass doors, and shop windows in the outer bays; at first floor, a window in the centre with leaded stained glass and an elaborate broken-pedimented architrave with an oculus immediately above set in a swan-necked architrave, and large depressed-arched six-light transomed windows in the other bays with moulded terracotta surrounds and leaded stained glass in the upper lights. Above and behind is the gabled end of the main range, which has four round-headed windows with mask keystones of red terracotta, an egg-and-dart frieze, a round-headed window in the gable flanked by sunk panels with raised lettering "ROYAL COURT" "THEATRE"; and stepped gable coping with a flaming-urn finial, flanked by

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.